Artist Statement
A contemporary surreal landscape painter turned figurative steel sculptor...
At the early age of 10 yrs old, I found I was pretty good at drawing. 11 years later, Shortly before I enrolled at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, my artistic attention turned to painting contemporary surreal landscape compositions. As my studies at the Academy of Art University progressed, I took a great liking to figurative sculpting. I throw a couple of welding classes into the mix, and becoming a welded steel figurative sculptor was to be an inevitable outcome
The catalyst for the emergence of the welded steel sculptor within, was Celtic Forest.
Working with Celtic Forest, a granted and funded major installation at Burning Man, I created three figures. The first, in 2007, was the winged goddess “Belissima”, a female figure with a wing span of 10.5 ft. I was then asked by Celtic Forest to create two more sculptures of celtic gods for them In 2008. For that year I created “Boann” the celitc goddess of water and fertility as a 6.5 ft tall mermaid, and the celtic god “Epos Olloatir” in the form of an 11 ft. tall centaur (half horse, half man).
I graduated from the Academy of Art University in 2008 with a Bachelors degree in fine-art (painting and drawing). Currently I am creating innovative designs for paintings using forced perspective to maximize the viewers field of vision. and am planning compositions which will combine 3-dimensional figurative sculptures with 2-dimensional paintings.
